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Tim Fernholz

February 13, 2015
Bitcoin fans may not enjoy the government’s attention, but they should be flattered: It means the technology they are developing is powerful stuff. At a recent forum that brought together government officials and bitcoin entrepreneurs to discuss the future of the cryptocurrency, paeans to the protocol’s efficiency mingled with law ...

February 13, 2015
Bitcoin fans may not enjoy the government’s attention, but they should be flattered: It means the technology they are developing is powerful stuff. At a recent forum that brought together government officials and bitcoin entrepreneurs to discuss the future of the cryptocurrency, paeans to the protocol’s efficiency mingled with law ...

February 3, 2015
FROM NEXTGOV
Let’s say you want to build a hotel on the moon. Would you buy the land? Claim it? With private companies racing to make space access cheaper, this question is becoming far less of a joke and far more of a real concern. And it’s led the U.S. Federal Aviation ...

February 3, 2015
Let’s say you want to build a hotel on the moon. Would you buy the land? Claim it? With private companies racing to make space access cheaper, this question is becoming far less of a joke and far more of a real concern. And it’s led the US Federal Aviation ...

January 26, 2015
In the end, it took John Ashcroft to get the US Air Force and Elon Musk to play nice together. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, announced a settlement with the Air Force, ending a lawsuit that accused the military of unfairly awarding an $11 billion launch contract to United Launch ...

January 26, 2015
In the end, it took John Ashcroft to get the Air Force and Elon Musk to play nice together. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, announced a settlement with the Air Force, ending a lawsuit that accused the military of unfairly awarding an $11 billion launch contract to United Launch Alliance, ...

January 26, 2015
FROM NEXTGOV
In the end, it took John Ashcroft to get the US Air Force and Elon Musk to play nice together. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, announced a settlement with the Air Force, ending a lawsuit that accused the military of unfairly awarding an $11 billion launch contract to United Launch ...

January 15, 2015
FROM NEXTGOV
When US president Barack Obama proposed eliminating rules in 19 states that prohibit cities from building out their own public broadband networks, the response from the cable industry and government skeptics was immediate: Big government is taking over the internet, and it won’t end well. “Many such enterprises have ended ...

January 8, 2015
One of the first tasks accomplished by the new US congress was tweaking the rules used by Congressional accountants to hide the borrowing caused by tax cuts. The shift in methods directly reflects the preferences of the new Republican majority in Congress. The new rules require the use of “dynamic ...

December 29, 2014
FROM NEXTGOV
If you flew a U.S. airline over the holidays, you probably paid extra to stow your bag, or for some extra leg room. If you’re not a frequent flyer, you saw some of your fellow travelers board the plane before you in a special fast lane. These à la carte ...